was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1895, from 
_ Mr. Curtis, F.L.S., Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens 
and Plantations of Penang, who had received it from 
Burma. It flowered in the Orchid House in February, 
1896, and the leaves were perfected in the following May. 
The flowers were deliciously violet-scented. 
Descr.—Stems very slender, eighteen inches long and 
upward, by one-tenth to one-eighth of an inch in diameter, 
pendulous, branched; branches elongate; internodes one 
to one anda half inches long, clothed throughout their 
length with the white appressed old leaf-sheaths; nodes 
hardly enlarged, often rooting. Jieaves produced before 
the flowers, one to two inches long, oblong, obtuse, bright 
green, coriaceous, nerves obscure. Flowers from the 
upper nodes of the branchlets, solitary, or two or three 
together on a very short peduncle, very shortly pedicelled, 
about an inch in diameter, white, with the side-lobes and 
base of the mid-lobe of the lip golden yellow, the side- 
lobes streaked with red; bracts small, ovate. Sepal and 
petals spreading, of nearly equal length, ovate-oblong, tips 
rounded; dorsal sepal rather the narrowest, and petals 
rather broader, and more oblong than the sepals. Lip a 
little longer than the sepals, lateral lobes small, rounded, 
incurved ; terminal broadly ovate-oblong, tip rounded or 
subacute, disk minutely villous; mentum produced into a 
recurved spur as long as the lip. Anther two-lobed at the 
top, margins erose.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ovary and lip ; 2, column; 3, anther; 4, pollinia ;—Ai] enlarged, 
